Norman Carlberg

Norman Carlberg
Born	1928
Known for	Sculpture
Movement	modular constructivism

Norman Carlberg (born 1928) is an American sculptor and printmaker. He is noted as an exemplar of the modular constructivist style.

Carlberg was born in Roseau, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and at the University of Illinois before going on to study under Josef Albers at Yale.

"Recent Sculpture USA", a 1959 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, featured Carlberg's work. Afterwards, Carlberg taught briefly (1960–61) in Santiago, Chile. In 1961, he was named director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. He taught at MICA until 1996.

Carlberg has written: "My style of sculpture represents the movement known as 'Modular constructivism', which grew into its maturity and popularity in the 50's and 60's.". The "modular" aspect of Carlberg's constructions is often readily apparent to the eye. Carlberg discussed Modular constructivism with art critic Brian Sherwin, stating, "My sense of it is that "Modular" constructivism is making a work of art within the limitations that modules impose on the object. They restrict what can be made but the restrictions also give meaning and value to the object, just as a poem is beautiful, in part, because the rules, or limitations, give the words a structure that the mind finds pleasurable over and above the message."

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